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Joseph-Gaspard de Tascher de La Pagerie

1735–1790

Born
5 Jul 1735, Martinique
Country of birth
France
Died
6 Jun 1790, Martinique
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A life in time

  1. Born · Martinique

    Birth, Martinique

  2. Child born: Joséphine de Beauharnais

    Birth, Les Trois-Îlets

  3. Died · Martinique

    Death, Martinique

What was it like?

The world around Martinique, 1735: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Joseph-Gaspard was born around the same time as James Watt, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Born around the same time

  • James Watt

    1736 · British engineer (1736–1819)

  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange

    1736 · Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)

  • Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

    1736 · French physicist (1736-1806)

  • Patrick Henry

    1736 · American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 – 1799)

  • James Macpherson

    1736 · British writer, poet, translator and politician (1736-1796)

  • Jean Sylvain Bailly

    1736 · French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)

During their lifetime

  1. 1738

    Introduction of road labor corvee

    In 1738, the crown introduced the corvee, a system of forced labor requiring peasants to build and maintain the royal roads.

  2. 1748

    Abolition of the royal galleys

    In 1748, King Louis XV abolished the galleys, transferring convicts to coastal prisons or ships, ending a long-standing form of harsh penal servitude.

  3. 1775

    The Flour War of 1775

    The Flour War of 1775 involved widespread riots across northern France after grain trade deregulation caused bread prices to rise by over 50 percent.

  4. 1783

    First human flight in 1783

    King Louis XVI hosted the first successful human flight in a hot-air balloon at Versailles, lasting 25 minutes on November 21, 1783.

  5. 1789

    Storming of the Bastille in 1789

    On July 14, 1789, Parisian citizens stormed the Bastille prison, a pivotal event that signaled the start of the French Revolution and the collapse of royal authority.

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